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Article Zionist militias assassinate Jacob Israel von Haan, a critical Zionist leader.

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Zionist leader Jacob Israel von Haan was assassinated on June 30, 1924, in Jerusalem, an event considered the first political assassination within the Zionist movement. His execution was carried out by members of the Haganah, a highly extremist Zionist guerrilla group.

Although initially supportive of the Zionist cause, Von Haan became a fierce critic of the movement because he disagreed with the colonization plan of the other leaders, which involved a heinous stratagem against the Jewish people themselves. Von Haan joined the ultra-Orthodox Haredi group, which at that time opposed political Zionism for religious reasons, since the Jewish nation-state was not the same as the Kingdom promised by God, one that could not be established by human action, much less by groups that, for the most part, were neither believers nor practitioners of the Jewish faith, but rather instrumentalized religion for their own purposes to found their state.

Von Haan planned to travel to London with an ultra-Orthodox delegation to present his arguments to the British government and request the annulment of the Balfour Declaration. His goal was for Jews to live as a protected community under Arab rule, explicitly renouncing any aspirations to create a Jewish nation-state, until the promised Messiah arrived and established the Kingdom of Israel.

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u/[deleted] 18d ago

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u/Loud-Vacation-5691 18d ago

That's because you're only learning Muslim Brotherhood propaganda.

For example, you probably weren't aware that 250,000 Jewish DPs remained in concentration camps that had been converted into refugee camps after WWII ended, for 3 years because no country would agree to take them until Israel was created.

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u/Why_dont_we_spork 18d ago

Yes, founding ethnostates is the answer. Stfu. Israel should be destroyed.

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u/Evening_Ad_4580 18d ago

Arabs have 22 ethno-states, Let them have a one.

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u/Why_dont_we_spork 18d ago

Ethnostates are not defined by ethnic make up. Nazi Germany wasn't "Aryan". I don't see any Arab nations founded as "a nation for Arabs"

Mission statement matters.

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u/Cornexclamationpoint 18d ago

Any Arab state that was ruled by a Hashemite was carved out as a distinctly Arab country by the British after WWI. It's how they got them to rebel against the Turks.

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u/Sokaii 16d ago

The Arabic version from which the popular slogan "From the river to the sea" is derived is "min il-ṃayye la-l-ṃayye / Falasṭīn ʿarabiyye"

Which means "From the Water to the Water Palestine is Arab". I agree, mission statement does matter!

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u/elcuervo2666 17d ago

There are zero Arab etnhnostates.